Remote Control Lost
By gkslight
@gkslight (65)
India
January 11, 2012 11:01am CST
Imagine the scenario, after a hard days work you come home, take a shower and the next half an hour is your quality time with your TV plus your favorite show is about to come on. You sit on your favorite chair and about to switch on TV. Your hands automatically go where the remote control usually is, But to your surprise its not there..., you start looking and spend the next 5min doing so, still cant find it and you just cant recollect where you have placed it last time, What will your true reaction/feelings be.
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9 responses
@petersum (4522)
• United States
11 Jan 12
I've had that too! I just feel that the TV manufacturers who make the remote control so necessary by NOT including all the controls on the TV itself, are just incredibly stupid. I expect that they stole the designs since they obviously don't have any working brain cells themselves.
Losing the remote is bad enough, but holding it in your hand with discharged batteries is even more frustrating.
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@shiesse (306)
• Canada
11 Jan 12
I've had this happen too many times to count. With children who do not know how to put the remote away then cannot remember where they put it. I always thought my t.v remote should come with a page button, so you could just press a button on the t.v and the remote would beep. Unfortunatly that is not available so still spend many a times searching for the ever elusive remote control
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@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
12 Jan 12
I don't know if there are TV's with a remote control paging feature out there,but it's a good Idea..after all,cordless phones have it,why not remotes? the other option here would be some kind of a stick on tracker module or beeper you could attach to the remote..only that would mean yet another remote to use to track your other remotes!
Alternatively,you could get one of those whistle activated keychains and attach it to the remote..
Alternatively,you could get one of those whistle activated keychains and attach it to the remote.. @ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
12 Jan 12
I have remotes for the DVD machine,the TV,and the set top digital box..the digital box one went missing,and unable to locate it when I got home after work,gave up and went to bed..turned out when I found it the next day the cat had bumped it off and it had landed under the computer desk!
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
12 Jan 12
Now that you mention it,when I AM home,the cat does play with the screen to get at the characters on there!
@TrvlArrngr (4045)
• United States
12 Jan 12
It happened to me just before Xmas. My dog chewed the remote to my Roku (internet TV streaming box) that sits on my TV. You have to buy the remote from Roku so I would be without TV for about a week!!! Luckily after much searching I found a program online to have the remote on your computer!! so that worked until I got the replacement. Pretty cool what they have these days! It saved my life :)
@DayTimeDreamer (36)
• United States
12 Jan 12
I get frustrated and my temporary solution is to find a good channel by using the dials on the television. Here's a tip though, ALWAYS check under the paddings on your couch or sofa, it's where I usually find my TV remote.
@leighcee13 (32)
• Philippines
12 Jan 12
frustrated! i keep on forgetting stuff so i know excatly how that feels. now our remote control has stopped having a life of its own though, we cant use it anymore--its busted :DD
@bjc66bjc (6730)
• United States
11 Jan 12
Well my first reaction is manually turn on the TV so I will not miss
any part of my favorite show...then I would preceed to look for the
remote for maybe a few minutes then if its not found I would gladly
sit my happy butt in my favorite chair and watch my favorite show..
the remote search would come later...But if its misplaced regardless
who misplaced it...ITS MISPLACED..no need to freak out or get angry..
that type of reaction will truly not make the remote pop up in sight.
Come on...after all is it really worth getting so vexed about???
Life is precious....its beautiful if we make it...what happened
before remote...get up and do it manually...lots of people have
survived a remoteless world....sorry just keeping it real.....
@karin27 (141)
• South Africa
12 Jan 12
I would be very upset, infact i lost my remote to switch the tv on and off about a week ago, think my niece from 3 years old knows where my remote is, but ive searched the whole house, its anoying when you want to change the channel i have to stand up all the time, so im not very happy about it, wish the tvs could come with spare reomtes lol.
